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The Politics is an independent Australian journal of political analysis, written by diverse writers and thinkers. As well as being an online publication, The Politics publishes a daily column, delivered as an email to your inbox at 4pm, Monday to Friday.

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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
As anti-immigrant zealots plot the weekend's national marches and the pro-gun lobby rejoices in the boom in guns in the country, right-wing MPs should start worrying. thepolitics.com.au/lnp-flirts-w...
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LNP flirts with loony far-right sovereign risk - THE POLITICS
As anti-immigrant zealots plot the weekend's national marches and the pro-gun lobby rejoices in the boom in guns in the country, right-wing MPs should start worrying.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
She was the traumatised victim of rape, and then her character and integrity were raped as well. But she has shown she has guts and immense inner strength. thepolitics.com.au/brittany-hig...
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Brittany Higgins, courage personified - THE POLITICS
She was the traumatised victim of rape, and then her character and integrity were raped as well. But she has shown she has guts and immense inner strength.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The Sky News presenter's 'interview' with Israel's prime minister — a 'wartime leader' she considers of the same calibre as Winston Churchill — was pilloried as 'not journalism'. thepolitics.com.au/mark-sharris...
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Mark Sharri's words: Bibi/Churchill peas in a pod - THE POLITICS
The Sky News presenter's 'interview' with Israel's prime minister — a 'wartime leader' she considers of the same calibre as Winston Churchill — was pilloried as 'not journalism'.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The Nats MP's anti-climate action dictums describe impoverished small businesses and people living in their cars but not the fires and floods devastating regional Australia. thepolitics.com.au/labor-rejoic...
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Labor rejoices in the Barnaby rubble of net zero - THE POLITICS
The Nats MP's anti-climate action dictums describe impoverished small businesses and people living in their cars but not the fires and floods devastating regional Australia.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
As outraged and heartbroken Australians marched around Australia at the weekend, just whose 'values' are propelling the Israel-Hamas humanitarian nightmare in Gaza? thepolitics.com.au/god-giveth-a...
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God giveth and Judeo-Christianity taketh away - THE POLITICS
As outraged and heartbroken Australians marched around Australia at the weekend, just whose 'values' are propelling the Israel-Hamas humanitarian nightmare in Gaza?
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
A Senate inquiry will be out for blood as it seeks climate and energy truth, a subject often misinformed by far-right anti-net zero, anti-renewables rabble rousers. thepolitics.com.au/advance-warf...
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Advance warfare faces defeat in Greens skirmish - THE POLITICS
A Senate inquiry will be out for blood as it seeks climate and energy truth, a subject often misinformed by far-right anti-net zero, anti-renewables rabble rousers.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Masked men dressed in black plan to march through our capital cities spewing racist, toxic messages of hate. It's not just those from other countries who should be afraid. thepolitics.com.au/australia-fi...
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'Australia First': first they came for migrants ... - THE POLITICS
Masked men dressed in black plan to march through our capital cities spewing racist, toxic messages of hate. It's not just those from other countries who should be afraid.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
It can be a sad time when love dies — but it can also be a time of renewal, of independence, of standing tall, of walking a new path. It's time. thepolitics.com.au/us-israel-au...
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US-Israel-Aus common bond turns to junk bond - THE POLITICS
It can be a sad time when love dies — but it can also be a time of renewal, of independence, of standing tall, of walking a new path. It's time.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
First they'd give the most boring word in the world, 'productivity', a good kick up the ol' date. Then they'd bring back the biff and kick big tech bros into touch. thepolitics.com.au/what-would-r...
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What would Roy and HG put on the roundtable? - THE POLITICS
First they'd give the most boring word in the world, 'productivity', a good kick up the ol' date. Then they'd bring back the biff and kick big tech bros into touch.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Australia and others have left the US and its foreign policy flakes and ideologues behind and are speaking up for Gazans. thepolitics.com.au/australia-br...
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Australia breaks with the US over Israel — and not before time - THE POLITICS
Australia and others have left the US and its foreign policy flakes and ideologues behind and are speaking up for Gazans.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
A young man with brains and brawn has descended into a boring loudmouth loser who's been politically rotting from the head down for decades. thepolitics.com.au/lathams-prom...
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Latham's promise lost in venom and vitriol - THE POLITICS
A young man with brains and brawn has descended into a boring loudmouth loser who's been politically rotting from the head down for decades.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The tyrannical and egomaniacal US president has set knees a'trembling with his vindictive threats of revenge, using tariffs and insults. thepolitics.com.au/albanese-and...
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Albanese and the art of dodging Trump's revenge - THE POLITICS
The tyrannical and egomaniacal US president has set knees a'trembling with his vindictive threats of revenge, using tariffs and insults.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
With an 'opposition' that's as useful as deckhands on a submarine, it's up to David Shoebridge and co to fight the good fight against a deal that's sinking fast. thepolitics.com.au/greens-must-...
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Greens must blow AUKUS out of the water - THE POLITICS
With an 'opposition' that's as useful as deckhands on a submarine, it's up to David Shoebridge and co to fight the good fight against a deal that's sinking fast.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The US president's billionaire tech-bro Larry Ellison will do to the formerly highly respected network what Trump has done to America: rape, pillage and plunder it.https://thepolitics.com.au/trumps-as-happy-as-larry-with-cbs-shakedown/
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The media ain't what it used to be, but then the times aren't what they used to be either. thepolitics.com.au/do-you-want-...
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Do you want the good news — or the bad news? - THE POLITICS
The media ain't what it used to be, but then the times aren't what they used to be either.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The Liberal Party leader has gone from being one of the Parliamentary Friends of Palestine to being a parliamentary friend of Israel. thepolitics.com.au/with-friends...
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With friends like Sussan, Gaza doesn't need enemies - THE POLITICS
The Liberal Party leader has gone from being one of the Parliamentary Friends of Palestine to being a parliamentary friend of Israel.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
As the plot thickens, the nonagenarian media mogul has on one hand left Teflon Don out in the cold, but on the other kept him warm in the smoodging BS of Fox. thepolitics.com.au/trump-epstei...
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Trump, Epstein and the Rupert enigma - THE POLITICS
As the plot thickens, the nonagenarian media mogul has on one hand left Teflon Don out in the cold, but on the other kept him warm in the smoodging BS of Fox.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
As the prime minister kicks back in his king-of-the-world chair, all around him in the chamber is chaos as the Greens eat their own and the Coalition dines on chaos. thepolitics.com.au/albo-kissed-...
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Albo kissed by an angel. Greens founder kissed goodbye - THE POLITICS
As the prime minister kicks back in his king-of-the-world chair, all around him in the chamber is chaos as the Greens eat their own and the Coalition dines on chaos.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The US president is suing the media mogul over a salacious birthday note to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein published by Murdoch. Get your hot and salty popcorn ready. thepolitics.com.au/letter-of-th...
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Letter of the law: the Don vs Rupe - THE POLITICS
The US president is suing the media mogul over a salacious birthday note to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein published by Murdoch. Get your hot and salty popcorn ready.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Voters massacred the Liberals and blood is still on the walls. They need not only mops but sturdy yard brooms to sweep out debris left by Abbott, Dutton and Morrison. thepolitics.com.au/the-partys-o...
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The party's over. Time to clean up the mess - THE POLITICS
Voters massacred the Liberals and blood is still on the walls. They need not only mops but sturdy yard brooms to sweep out debris left by Abbott, Dutton and Morrison.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
... no eye rolls. Smile, nod, don't look bored, and FFS, do not let on that he's wrong, wrong, wrong. (Good luck, and godspeed.) thepolitics.com.au/dear-pm-when...
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Dear PM, when you meet with Trump ... - THE POLITICS
... no eye rolls. Smile, nod, don't look bored, and FFS, do not let on that he's wrong, wrong, wrong. (Good luck, and godspeed.)
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The special envoy has produced a report which is shocking in its authoritarian overreach and if approved could damage Australia's democracy. thepolitics.com.au/time-to-pulp...
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Time to pulp Jillian Segal's antisemitism plan? - THE POLITICS
The special envoy has produced a report which is shocking in its authoritarian overreach and if approved could damage Australia's democracy.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The similarities with Australia's leadership are striking, from left-leaning to defence-spending demands to antisemitism pain. But there are big differences in guts and grit. thepolitics.com.au/the-reign-in...
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The reign in Spain ... same same but different - THE POLITICS
The similarities with Australia's leadership are striking, from left-leaning to defence-spending demands to antisemitism pain. But there are big differences in guts and grit.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Sussan Ley stayed shtum as deputy dawg when Australian women were demeaned by her male colleagues. Now, all makeup and soft lighting, she's their plucky champion. Uh-huh. thepolitics.com.au/desperately-...
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Desperately seeking Sussan - THE POLITICS
Sussan Ley stayed shtum as deputy dawg when Australian women were demeaned by her male colleagues. Now, all makeup and soft lighting, she's their plucky champion. Uh-huh.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Labor hitman's moral outrage in his defence of the antisemitism envoy could perhaps be better utilised looking at due diligence and transparency in government appointments. thepolitics.com.au/segal-debacl...
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Segal debacle should see the back of Burke - THE POLITICS
Labor hitman's moral outrage in his defence of the antisemitism envoy could perhaps be better utilised looking at due diligence and transparency in government appointments.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The highly critical reactions to Jillian Segal's report and the revelation that her husband had donated to a far-right lobby group puts the prime minister in the hot seat. thepolitics.com.au/albo-and-his...
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Albo and his antisemitism envoy feel the heat - THE POLITICS
The highly critical reactions to Jillian Segal's report and the revelation that her husband had donated to a far-right lobby group puts the prime minister in the hot seat.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Once again the federal department that's at the centre of demands for a huge budget increase has its dysfunction and inefficiency exposed. thepolitics.com.au/lest-we-forg...
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Lest we forget Defence's indefensible flaws - THE POLITICS
Once again the federal department that's at the centre of demands for a huge budget increase has its dysfunction and inefficiency exposed.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Australia and its Pacific Island neighbours are a shoo-in to host the global climate summit next year. Conservatives will be clutching their pearls over their stand. thepolitics.com.au/good-cop-bad...
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Good COP, bad COP: Coalition's dilemma - THE POLITICS
Australia and its Pacific Island neighbours are a shoo-in to host the global climate summit next year. Conservatives will be clutching their pearls over their stand.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The media have whipped themselves up into a frenzy over our 'weak' PM and how much the Donald dislikes him. Good story. Shame it's not true. thepolitics.com.au/whos-red-fac...
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Who's red-faced over Trump? Hint: it's not Albo - THE POLITICS
The media have whipped themselves up into a frenzy over our 'weak' PM and how much the Donald dislikes him. Good story. Shame it's not true.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Teenage pregnancies. 'Bastard' children. Family shame. In those dark, dark days, many girls and women were forced to give up their babies. The pain never went away. thepolitics.com.au/a-mother-a-d...
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A mother, a daughter, a lifelong search ... - THE POLITICS
Teenage pregnancies. 'Bastard' children. Family shame. In those dark, dark days, many girls and women were forced to give up their babies. The pain never went away.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
When America's dropped its bombs on Iran's nuclear facilities, Donald Trump began his very own 'war on terror' — and truth, morality and dignity were the first casualties. thepolitics.com.au/battle-lines...
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Battle lines are drawn: are you friend or foe? - THE POLITICS
When America's dropped its bombs on Iran's nuclear facilities, Donald Trump began his very own 'war on terror' — and truth, morality and dignity were the first casualties.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Last month his children were too young for him to consider leadership. This month he's Mr Media. Those crazy kids. They've grown up so fast! thepolitics.com.au/hastie-in-a-...
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Hastie in a hurry: times a'wasting for this Lib - THE POLITICS
Last month his children were too young for him to consider leadership. This month he's Mr Media. Those crazy kids. They've grown up so fast!
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The plot thins as a glory-hungry US president co-writes scenes with a bloodthirsty Israeli prime minister, both vying for stardom on the world stage. thepolitics.com.au/trump-steals...
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Trump steals the show but Bibi writes the script - THE POLITICS
The plot thins as a glory-hungry US president co-writes scenes with a bloodthirsty Israeli prime minister, both vying for stardom on the world stage.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Truth be told, trust in the national broadcaster and other media is fragile, and Australians are entitled to know what journalists are paid for outside gigs, for what, and how much? thepolitics.com.au/trust-the-ab...
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Trust the ABC’s news? We need one major change. - THE POLITICS
Truth be told, trust in the national broadcaster and other media is fragile, and Australians are entitled to know what journalists are paid for outside gigs, for what, and how much?
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The former Nationals leader does his rant-and-rave best to persuade Australians that the UN-led climate change policy is 'crazy, crazy, crazy'. Never say die, clown prince. thepolitics.com.au/net-zeros-a-...
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Net zero's a bit under the weather in Barnaby land - THE POLITICS
The former Nationals leader does his rant-and-rave best to persuade Australians that the UN-led climate change policy is 'crazy, crazy, crazy'. Never say die, clown prince.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Anthony Albanese should grovel before Donald Trump, shovel more money into defence, toe the line, be a good boy. thepolitics.com.au/hawks-whip-u...
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Hawks whip up the awks in AUKUS talks - THE POLITICS
Anthony Albanese should grovel before Donald Trump, shovel more money into defence, toe the line, be a good boy.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
When she went high, they went lower than low. And although mean and malevolent has played well in the United States, our PM proves nice can be a winner. thepolitics.com.au/politics-its...
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Politics. It's a nasty business. Just ask Ardern. - THE POLITICS
When she went high, they went lower than low. And although mean and malevolent has played well in the United States, our PM proves nice can be a winner.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The US president and his lackeys presumed li'l ol' Oz would bow to their demands on everything from tariffs to trade and defence spending. Cop that, guys. thepolitics.com.au/in-our-defen...
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In our defence, 'Australia first' trumps 'America first' - THE POLITICS
The US president and his lackeys presumed li'l ol' Oz would bow to their demands on everything from tariffs to trade and defence spending. Cop that, guys.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Talk about crashing the party. Don't worry though — Tony Abbott, Peta Credlin and Alan Stockdale are here to help clean the place up after all the fun. thepolitics.com.au/its-the-libs...
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It's the Libs family circus! Send in the clowns - THE POLITICS
Talk about crashing the party. Don't worry though — Tony Abbott, Peta Credlin and Alan Stockdale are here to help clean the place up after all the fun.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
What would Jesus say about the most scorned and disparaged of Australia's former prime ministers being given the country's highest honour? thepolitics.com.au/on-the-wings...
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On the wings of God's eagle, ScoMo flies again - THE POLITICS
What would Jesus say about the most scorned and disparaged of Australia's former prime ministers being given the country's highest honour?
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The US president and the world's richest man have spectacularly fallen out, and the world is mesmerised by the maniacal repercussions. thepolitics.com.au/from-love-ra...
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From love rat to Musk rat ... Trump's latest frenemy - THE POLITICS
The US president and the world's richest man have spectacularly fallen out, and the world is mesmerised by the maniacal repercussions.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It'll take a long time for the senior Coalition party to get its breath back after that punch in the guts from voters. thepolitics.com.au/oof-libs-red...
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Oof! Libs red-faced in 'blue-ribbon' Bradfield - THE POLITICS
It'll take a long time for the senior Coalition party to get its breath back after that punch in the guts from voters.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Karoline Leavitt is young and inexperienced but is brash and brazen as she savages anyone and anything that challenges her messiah, Donald Trump. thepolitics.com.au/she-flounces...
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She flounces. She pounces. She's Trump's attack puppy - THE POLITICS
Karoline Leavitt is young and inexperienced but is brash and brazen as she savages anyone and anything that challenges her messiah, Donald Trump.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The prime minister will be laughing all the way to the next election as the US president's hostile, erratic and madcap executive orders boost Labor into the stratosphere. thepolitics.com.au/the-donald-d...
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The Donald deals Albo all the trump cards - THE POLITICS
The prime minister will be laughing all the way to the next election as the US president's hostile, erratic and madcap executive orders boost Labor into the stratosphere.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Environment activists are coming for Labor with an agenda for urgent and transformative change, and their demands will only get louder and more vociferous. thepolitics.com.au/earth-to-alb...
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Earth to Albanese: grow an eco-friendly spine - THE POLITICS
Environment activists are coming for Labor with an agenda for urgent and transformative change, and their demands will only get louder and more vociferous.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
They did it their way ... and look where that got them. Never fear! Tony Abbott, director and producer of failure after failure, has come to the rescue. thepolitics.com.au/and-now-the-...
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And now, the end is near ... Coalition faces the final curtain - THE POLITICS
They did it their way ... and look where that got them. Never fear! Tony Abbott, director and producer of failure after failure, has come to the rescue.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The lord works in mysterious ways, but our former PM's prayers were answered and led him to unravel the secret of god's plans for him. thepolitics.com.au/scomo-man-of...
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ScoMo, man of god to man of a crock of gold - THE POLITICS
The lord works in mysterious ways, but our former PM's prayers were answered and led him to unravel the secret of god's plans for him.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Until both parties stand in front of banks of mirrors and look deeply into themselves, they haven't got a hope in hell of redemption in the minds and hearts of Australians. thepolitics.com.au/blue-rinse-v...
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Blue rinse vs blue heeler: Libs and Nats bark at the moon - THE POLITICS
Until both parties stand in front of banks of mirrors and look deeply into themselves, they haven't got a hope in hell of redemption in the minds and hearts of Australians.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The national broadcaster's flagship Four Corners last night didn't dig deep into the Coalition's entrails, scarcely scraping the surface. And its execs need some friendly advice. thepolitics.com.au/r-u-ok-abc-y...
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R U OK, ABC? You're not looking all that great - THE POLITICS
The national broadcaster's flagship Four Corners last night didn't dig deep into the Coalition's entrails, scarcely scraping the surface. And its execs need some friendly advice.
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The Politics @thepolitics.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
For those eligible, voluntary assisted dying is an option that should be made simple, easy and as painless as possible — and neither church nor state should put up roadblocks. thepolitics.com.au/life-isnt-me...
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Life isn't meant to be easy — but death is - THE POLITICS
For those eligible, voluntary assisted dying is an option that should be made simple, easy and as painless as possible — and neither church nor state should put up roadblocks.
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